Substance and Behavioral Addictions
Concepts, Causes, and Cures

This book presents the etiology, assessment, prevention and cessation of eleven focal addictions within an appetitive motivation framework of addiction.

Steve Sussman (Author)

9781107495913, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 February 2017

418 pages, 4 b/w illus. 23 tables
24.6 x 18.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.87 kg

'The material of this book provides greater knowledge about the background and implications of addiction, which is relevant for patients and providers alike. Readers will find Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes and Cures substantive and digestible, and a worthwhile source as a whole.' Jessica S. Bayner, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures presents the concepts, etiology, assessment, prevention, and cessation of substance (tobacco, alcohol, other drugs, and food) and behavioral (gambling, Internet, shopping, love, sex, exercise, and work) addictions. The text provides a novel and integrative appetitive motivation framework of addiction, while acknowledging and referencing multi-level influences on addiction, such as neurobiological, cognitive, and micro-social and macro-social/physical environmental. The book discusses concurrent and substitute addiction, and offers prevention and treatment solutions, which are presented from a more integrative perspective than traditional presentations. This is an ideal text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, practitioners, and researchers.

Part I. Addiction and Addictive Effects: 1. A general introduction to the concept of addiction and addictive effects
2. Addictive effects and appetitive needs
3. Variables that increase the likelihood of developing an addiction
4. Consequences of addiction
Part II. Types of Addictions: 5. Types of addictions: general overview
6. Substance addictions: their prevalence and co-occurrence
7. Behavioral addictions: their prevalence and co-occurrence
8. Patterns of addiction co-occurrence, replacement, and lifestyle demands
9. Assessing the 11 focal addictions
Part III. Resolving the Problems of Addiction and Future Directions: 10. Resolving the problems of addiction - prevention: general principles
11. Prevention: intrapersonal-level approaches
12. Prevention: extrapersonal-level approaches
13. Resolving the problems of addiction - cessation: general principles
14. Cessation: intrapersonal-level approaches
15. Cessation: extrapersonal-level approaches
16. Future considerations for substance and behavioral addictions
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychiatry [MMH], Mental health services [MBPK]